Favorite sexual fantasies reveal that women want intimacy while men want sex acts

Evidence

The students gave many answers to the question “‘what is the best, the most satisfying part of this fantasy for you?” But the women most often cited being loved and desired (17%), being held and cuddled (17%), and the love and intimacy of the moment (14%). The most common answers among the men were the sex itself (22%), having sex with more than one woman (15%), and seeing women naked (10%). Since we are talking about one’s favorite, selfgenerated fantasy, I think these answers indicate what women and men want most from sex. — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 2411

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Prostitution fantasies in girls can slide into actual promiscuity — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1658; Human sexuality depends on fantasy, not biological excitation — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 168